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Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

Lili Anolik turns a cache of letters between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz into a book about the unlikely friendship between two ...

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The exclusive event included a reading of Babitz’s unsent letters by those A-list actors and the book’s author herself, Lili ...

Hollywood actresses took turns reading previously unpublished letters penned by the late Eve Babitz to others, including Joan ...

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In the Literary It-girl universe, there is no larger chasm than that between Joan Didion acolytes and Eve Babitz fanatics.

In ‘Didion & Babitz,’ journalist Lili Anolik unpacks the volatile yet symbiotic relationship between two literary icons.